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On March 9-10, 1945, about 300 B-29s dropped incendiary bombs on Tokyo ("Hellertown High grad flew on Tokyo firebomb raid"), creating a firestorm that killed more than 100,000 people; Nagasaki and Hiroshima had less from the atomic bombs. Critics today still rebuke the United States for the barbaric attacks on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, but even the Japanese do not mention this raid on Tokyo as much. All three actions were designed to end the death and destruction of the war as quickly as possible. It was only after five days that Japan decided to surrender. They were conditioned as a people to fight to the death rather than give up; the longer the war lasted, more would be dead. ...

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